(Muhammad Mosa) ADO.NET is a collection of .NET classes that you can use to access data in different kinds of data store.
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Comparison Between VB 6.0 and VB.NET Objects
(HanneSThEGreaT) With this article, I want to provide a detailed explanation of the Form object’s Property Window changes (from Visual Basic 6.0 to Visual Basic.NET). This will be very useful when you come from a Visual Basic 6 background. This article is not just aimed at VB6 veterans but to anyone
Oracle Inside
(David Baum) It’s Saturday night, and you’re ready to hit the town. Your first stop is Sandia Casino, where your regular patronage has earned enough Peak Rewards points for a free steak dinner. Sandia knows you well, thanks to an Oracle-based casino management system from Konami Gaming, an Oracle pa
Practical data binding: XPath as data binding tool, Part 2
(Brett McLaughlin) Once you understand XPath syntax and location paths, accessing XML without the overhead of DOM and SAX is possible and even easy. Fortunately for Java developers, the Java API for XML Processing (JAXP) provides a native Java solution for creating XPath requests and using the resul
Exploiting IBM DB2 in your Lotus Domino 7 application
(Debbie Branco, Tom McGary and Wai-ki Yip) In this article, we discuss how you can work with the new IBM DB2 integration features offered in Lotus Domino 7.
ORDPATHs: Insert-Friendly XML Node Labels
(Patrick O’Neil, Elizabeth O’Neil, Shankar Pal, Istvan Cseri, Gideon Schaller and Nigel Westbury) We introduce a hierarchical labeling scheme called ORDPATH that is implemented in the upcoming version of Microsoft SQL Server. ORDPATH labels nodes of an XML tree without requiring a schema (the mo
Don’t use backup and restore to distribute database tools
(Serdar Yegulalp) Many database software tools are designed to work with SQL Server or they are packaged with a SQL Server database. That’s all well and good, but you then have the thorny task of distributing the database to a client or end user. A parallel situation may involve creating a custom so
INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE from a full select
(Chris Eaton) Let’s start off the year with some helpful SQL. First I want to talk about a new feature that was shipped in 8.1.4. As of this release, you can perform INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE statements on the results of a fullselect. You have always been able to put a WHERE clause on a DELETE state
The Oracle Redo Generation
(Eric S. Emrick) Each year corporations are faced with the challenge of trying to meet increasingly stringent service level agreements with their internal and external customers. Availability, performance and capacity planning are the cornerstones upon which successful companies position their IT i
Tracking Dependencies with Components and XMI
(Mark Goetsch) This fourth installment in an ongoing series on XMI leads me to a discussion of components. Components are an essential building block of your data model and are thus a valuable asset to any developer who is using models and XMI. In this article, I will discuss how components are